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63) The photograph
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For Maddy Marshall, it was a time of innocence. Then, on her seventeenth birthday, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Her fiancé and all the other neighborhood boys ran off to enlist, ready to defend their country. It was all incredibly romantic to Maddy--until the night before her brother Davey shipped out, the night she danced with dreamy Lieutenant Tull-Martin, the night of the photographs. Then her world fell apart. Only Davey's wife, Ruth, discovers...
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"Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last person to fly into Berlin-under-siege in April 1945, in...
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An inspiring picture book biography about Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese American woman to fly for the US military. Even when other people scoffed at her dreams of becoming a pilot, Hazel Ying Lee wouldn't take no for an answer. She became the first Chinese American woman to fly for the US military, joining the Women's Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. -- Adapted from jacket.
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"The year is 1927, and in America, England and Russia, three young girls share a dream: to fly. But in an age when men still rule the skies, the odds are stacked against them ... As the grim shadow of war falls once again upon the west, Hazel, Lilya and Marlene leap at the chance to fly for their countries. In the face of doubt, racism and constant peril, they fearlessly pursue their passions for aviation like no woman before."--Page 4 of cover.
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"Although he was the first African American fighter pilot, Eugene J. Bullard is still a relative stranger in his homeland. An accomplished professional boxer, musician, club manager, and impresario of Parisian nightlife between the world wars, Bullard found in Europe a degree of respect and freedom unknown to Blacks in America. There, for twenty-five years, he helped define the expatriate experience for countless other African American artists, writers,...